Holidays are such a nightmare. It is amazing how much planning goes into a holiday.    I have recently been looking to go abroad on holiday. Trying to locate a villa in a nice area has been quite a task.    Then once that was found, trying to find flights to get me there is a bit of a joke.    Is it me or do flights seem to have shot up considerably    The price you see advertised is not the end of it, then you have to add on luggage charges, meals, sitting together etc.

Finally I managed to co-ordinate both the villa and flights and was literally about to pick up the phone and make the reservations, when I received a call from my husband saying he wasn’t allowed to take the time off work.   I give up, no truly I have given up and have decided that I am going to take the stress out of it all and take a look at UK family holidays.  By changing the type of holiday I take, I am confident that I am going to be able to do pretty much what I like – when I like.

My daughter is so excited and she thinks it’s going to be fantastic.   She has already started looking at things we can all do and the UK Activity Holidays websites have been pulled up on the computer.  She has picked out a few places in Wales that she likes the look of.  It’s amazing how many different activities we can take part in.    She can have a go at abseiling, surfing, climbing to name but a few.  Unfortunately for me it would seem that my sunbathing week is not going to happen this year and instead I am going to be kept busy.

By the sounds of it in fact, I will be so busy that I am going to have to think about having a look at UK short breaks on my return. Well I’m not used to much more exercise than tipping my gin and tonic glass up and down and popping into the pool for an occassional dip.